Faces of Many Nations

by Amelie Sloan

Overview

Amelie "Amie" Sloan took her first pottery course at the Rehoboth, Delaware Art League with Dorothy Lewis in 1973. Since then, she has worked on sculpting ethnic clay masks. In 2007 a retrospective of her work was hung at the League. This book is an outcome of the show. It demonstrates her abiding interest in the clay medium and in anthropology, history, and decoration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781477601266
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/05/2012
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	90
Sales rank:	986,087
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

In 1938 Amelie "Amie" Sloan, on a class trip to New York City, visited the studio of Melvina Hoffman who was sculpting full-size models of her series "Races of Man" for the Field Museum in Chicago. Later, Amie decided to do a series, making ethnic faces in clay which could be wall decorations rather than free-standing pieces. Sources have included museum visits and catalogs, newspapers, magazines and books. This book is an outcome of her 2007 show at the Delaware Art League. It demonstrates her abiding interest in the clay medium and in anthropology, history, and decoration.

The mother of three, grandmother of six, and great-grandmother of one, Amie has been a farm wife, an elementary teacher, and a pottery teacher at the Art League with the Academy of Lifelong Learning. Amie is a native Delawarean. She has lived in the same house at Pinewater Farm for over sixty years.